Reproducing women : medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China /
Wu, Yi-Li,1965-
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Late imperial fuke and the literate medical tradition -- Amateur as arbiter : popular fuke manuals in the Qing -- Function and structure in the female body -- An uncertain harvest : pregnancy and miscarriage -- "Born like a lamb" : the discourse of cosmologically resonant childbirth -- To generate and transform : strategies for postpartum health -- Epilogue: body, gender, and medical legitimacy.
Childbirth
Women